What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Alpine char been recorded?

Salvelinus alpinus occurrence evidence comes from 105,734 records in 11 countries and territories, from 1852 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Alpine char
Alpine char — Photo (display-sized rendition): Alison Copeland · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
SalmoniformesSalmonidaeSalvelinus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

105,734 records across 11 countries and territories, 1852–2026.

Salvelinus alpinus · GBIF taxon key 4284021

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-22. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: August.

3 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18522026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Alpine char has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Alpine char. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 103,541
Norway 1,749
United States 277
Canada 99
Italy 49
Greenland 6
Russia 4
United Kingdom 3
Iceland 3
Austria 2
Luxembourg 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.